Word: virginal
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...Officials were still trying to determine whether cult leader Joseph Kibwetere, 68, died in the blaze or escaped. The onetime devout Roman Catholic teacher helped create the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God sect 10 years ago, after claiming he had been told by the Virgin Mary that the world would soon end. In the mid-1990s, he established a base in remote Kanungu. Using money provided by followers, who commonly sold their homes and possessions upon joining, and funds from groups and individuals overseas, Kibwetere built a small complex of houses, offices and a school...
...move that pundits are saying is designed to demonstrate his hitherto virtually unknown ability to compromise, the mayor on Monday struck a deal to end his dispute with the Brooklyn Museum, from which he had withdrawn funding last year over its exhibition of an elephant-dung-smeared "Virgin Mary" portrait and other controversial art. In the agreement, the city will continue to fund the museum at its current level and the museum will drop a First Amendment suit it had filed against the city...
...never get over your first fieldwork," DeVore says of his experiences. "It's like a virgin's first crush or first kiss...
...descriptions and work teams are temporary, and business rivals can sometimes be partners. Funky Inc. is also extremely focused, providing only one or a few goods and services--those it does best. But it won't hesitate to enter a variety of industries--not unlike Richard Branson's Virgin brand. Success in markets dominated by consumers and brands, the authors claim, comes not from taking on competitors head on, but from staking out new territories away from the herd. "The dirty little secret of market capitalism in all its many forms is that successful companies...have all succeeded in creating...
...Noble Lecturer will be John Shelby Spong. In his many writings, Spong has disavowed nearly every traditional Christian belief. In his self-congratulatory A Call for a New Reformation, Spong claims that theism is dead, that Jesus was not God incarnate, that original sin is false, that the virgin birth was impossible, that miracles never happened, that the story of Christ on the cross is "a barbarian idea," that Jesus was not resurrected, that prayer does not work, that there is no heaven or hell and that there is "no external, objective, revealed standard" for moral behavior (although, curiously, racism...